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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1948
Page
3
A dense schedule lists numerous churches with pastors, service times, Sunday schools, and special events across Brucetown Capon Bridge Salem Winchester Stephens City and surrounding towns. Includes Jubilee Little Mountain Reliance Ridings Chapel Greenway and Walnut Springs with multiple services and speakers.
Market report from Baltimore and Chicago on June 25 notes apples steady to up for various sizes, eggs wholesale prices largely steady, and mixed cattle hogs and sheep demand. Cattle receipts, calves light, hogs barely sold at higher asks, and lambs steady. Chicago hogs and cattle quotations range with breed and weight distinctions.
New York June 25 stock market moved downward after a morning of rising tendencies. Losses were fractional, with a number of stocks showing small gains. Rail, amusement, and rubber issues did well while steels, motors, and oils declined. Major losers included U S Steel Republic Steel Youngstown Sheet Pacific Western Oil Texas Co General Motors Chrysler Southern Pacific Richfield Oil Atlantic Coast Line Westinghouse Electric and American Telephone.
Daily market list shows no. 2 red winter wheat at 2.30 a bushel city delivery and yellow corn at 2.35 a bushel. Barley 1.65, soybeans 2.49, feeds like egg mash 5.48, cracked corn 4.95, broiler mash 5.70, turkey grower 5.55, mixed feed 0.0, scratch feed 0.0, butter retail 84 and wholesale 76.
Winchester White Sox schedule a 2 p.m. Sunday game against Shepherdstown on Senseny Road Diamond 3. Sam Ensogna urged all team members to attend.
In Market Street play the Methodists edged the Baptists 20-15 as Elliott slammed four hits including a triple and two home runs. Montague Avenue Methodist won 12-8 over United Brethren after a 4-2 Tuesday loss to the Baptists. Sacred Heart Catholic defeated Christ Episcopal 12-9. Junior League Brad dock Methodist beat Christ Episcopal 13-4. Royal Crown upset Rosenberger 7-6 to pull even with Virginia Woolen for first in City League as two postponements loom and a three way tie looms if Wards Grocery and O Sullivan win.
Chicago grain prices ease for wheat and slip for corn as crop prospects improve. Opening quotes show July wheat at 2.33 1 4, July corn at 2.22 3 4, with soybeans at 4.15 and lard around 23.37 to 23.72. A harness racing leader list notes Algiers $47,697, Proximity $34,365, Hoot Man $56,810, and Rollo $25,656 in 1947 geldings and horses.
The Court orders defendants Belle Faulkner Ferguson Brown Faulkner Weaver Kenneth Weaver John Weaver Albert Weaver and John Gray Beverley Executors of Susan Faulkner Beverley to appear within ten days after publication to protect their interests in a partition action concerning real estate in Winchester Virginia. Clerk P J Marshall and counsel Jos B Newlin.
Winchester summer playground program opens with a small, eager group as churches and schools are in session. Leaders at Handley Virginia Avenue Rouss Park Douglas and Rockingham fields report gradual enrollment growth after sessions end, with bathhouse work and early pool openings upcoming. The first annual City Tennis Rating tournament enlists over twenty players with finals planned July 3.
Commencement exercises set for 7 p.m. today at Centenary Reformed Church. The school, run by Miss Lois Lindsey of Lynchburg College, is a joint effort of Centenary Reformed and Cork St. Christian churches with about one hundred children enrolled.
The Middletown Fire Company voted to sponsor the Middletown Minks at a called meeting. Sunday the Minks will play Berkeley in a local semi pro baseball matchup.
Springs at Middletown hosts a 3 p.m. EST benefit event with proceeds to the fire company. Food and soft drinks will be served at the field.
A government brief notes 176 million acres of national forests across the United States. It outlines land management, conservation goals, and the role of federal agencies in guarding timber resources and outdoor recreation, with emphasis on national forest boundaries and stewardship.
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